Module 7 - Monitoring and Analytics

Question 1

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 1

• Web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from these metrics.
• Uses metrics to represent data points for resources.

• AWS services sends metrics to CloudWatch.
o CloudWatch then uses metrics to create graphs automatically that show how performance changed over time.

Question 2

CloudWatch Alarms

Answer 2

• Can create alarms that automatically perform actions if value of metric has gone above/below predefined threshold.
• Configuring alarm – specify to receive notification whenever alarm triggered.

Question 3

CloudWatch Dashboard

Answer 3

• Enables you to access all metrics for your resources from single location.
• Can customise separate dashboards for different business purposes, applications, resources.

Question 4

AWS CloudTrail

Answer 4

• Records API calls for your account.
• “trail” of breadcrumbs (log of actions) that someone has left behind them.
• Can view complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources.
• Can use API calls to provision, manage, and configure your AWS resources.
• Events updated in CloudTrail within 15 minutes after API call.

Question 5

AWS CloudTrail recorded information includes:

Answer 5

Identity of API caller.

Time of API call.

Source IP address of API caller and more.

Question 6

AWS CloudTrail filter events by:

Answer 6

specifying time and date that API call occurred.

User who requested action.

Type of resource that was involved in API calls and more.

Question 7

CloudTrail Insights

Answer 7

Can enable in CloudTrail.

Optional feature allows CloudTrail to automatically detect unusual API activities in your AWS account.

Can review full event details to determine which actions you need to take next.

Question 8

AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer 8

Web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

Guidance provided by AWS Trusted Advisor can benefit your company at all stages of deployment.

Question 9

AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard five categories:

Answer 9

o	Cost optimisation.
o	Performance.
o	Security.
o	Fault tolerance.
o	Service limits.

Question 10

AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard 3 checks:

Answer 10

o Green check indicates number of items for which it detected no problems.

o Orange triangle represents number of recommended investigations.

o Red circle represents number of recommended actions.